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AstrologyCongratulations, your emotions are stable and you are able to wait out a slow-moving situation. This is a great time to engage in renovation and beautification projects. Spiff things up! Material objects are excellent, and encouragement comes from things you can see and touch. Good shopping! Medical issues are well resolved, and work is motoring [...]  The First Object of RefugeThe following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Essence of Devotion” Although the Buddha that we remember as Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, Shakyamuni is not present in his physical body as we understand it right now, we look at the Lama as the embodiment of the qualities, intentions, compassion and [...] AstrologyAn important message, letter or communication happens today. It’s most crucial to speak in a kind, diplomatic manner. Angry or demanding speech harms your cause and you will be ignored, or worse. The urge to “tell people off” is strong today, as is the wish to push others who aren’t responding the way you would [...]  Right SpeechAn excerpt from a teaching called The Eightfold Path by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Right speech is the first principal of ethical conduct on the Eightfold Path. And on the Eightfold Path is really based on ethical conduct. It’s one of the things that I like best about Buddhism. It isn’t based on a pie-in-the-sky [...] |
The following is from “The Lamp of Liberation: A Collection of Prayers, Advice and Aspirations“ Kye! To all the Buddhas of the three times Inseparable from the great absolute space, Great intrinsic nature of phenomena, Space of awareness uncontrived and ever-free, We bow in order to realize our self-nature, And vow from now not [...] The following prayer is from the Nam Cho Daily Practice Book by Palyul Ling International: HRIH NGÖN GYI KAL PAI DANG PO LA In the past, at the beginning of this aeon, O GYEN YUL GYI NUB JYANG TSAM In the northwest country of Uddiyana, DHANA KO SHAI TSO LING DU On an island [...] Prayer To Manjushri Obeisance to my Guru and Protector, Manjushri, Who holds to his heart a scriptural text symbolic of his seeing all things as they are, Whose intelligence shines forth as the sun, unclouded by delusions or traces of ignorance, Who teaches in sixty ways with the loving compassion of a father for [...] The following is a prayer from the Bodhisattva Vow Ceremony as translated in the Nam Cho Daily Practice Book from Palyul Ling International: Alas! Fortunate ones! Do not let ignorance overwhelm you. Wake up now and be diligent. Since beginningless time to this very moment You have been sleeping in ignorance. Enough! Now sleep [...] NGA GYUR KA TER TSUR KHOR LO GYUR; KHÉ DRUB GYAL PO THINLEY NORBU YI “You who have turned the wheel of oceans of transmitted and revealed texts of the Early Translations, king of enlightened scholars and practitioners, Action Jewel (Thinley Norbu), CHOG GI TRUL KU DA ZHEL NYUR CHAR TÉ; SA SUM TRA [...] The following is from the Profound Oral Transmission Lineage of Nam Cho Mind Treasure: Hung: Glorious Mahakala, black in color, Wearing a black silk cloak and appearing awesomely powerful, With one face and two hands, the right hand holds A spear with a flag and the left hand a lasso made of hearts. Around [...] The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo on the first Guru Rinpoche Day of 2012: Interesting isn’t it, how we tend to think only of ourselves, and not even realize it? When His Holiness Penor Rinpoche passed to his Parinirvana I thought I’d never recover. But of course this [...] The following prayer is from the Nam Cho Daily Practice from Palyul Ling International: Glorious, precious Root Guru, Upon the pollen heart of the lotus in my heart, Without ever separating, always remaining, Hold me fast with your great kindness. Pray, bestow the spiritual attainments of body, speech and mind. To the activities of [...] The following prayer was taken from the Nam Cho Daily Practice from Palyul Ling International: I pay homage to the continuously present and unmodified nature of pure presence (rigpa). I offer the clear light, freedom from depths and limits. I confess within the vast expanse, the equality of samsara and nirvana. I rejoice in [...] The following translation of this prayer is from the Nam Cho Daily Practice from Palyul Ling International: OM To all who dwell in natural, spontaneously present, perfectly pure phenomenal existence, To all who dwell in the auspicious realms of the ten direcitons, To the Buddhas, Dharma and assemblies of Noble Sangha, I prostrate and [...] |
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